Sensitivity of occipito-temporal cortex, premotor and Broca's areas to visible speech gestures in a familiar language.

When looking at a speaking person, the analysis of facial kinematics contributes to language discrimination and to the decoding of the time flow of visual speech. To disentangle these two factors, we investigated behavioural and fMRI responses to familiar and unfamiliar languages when observing spee...

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Main Authors: Vincenzo Maffei, Iole Indovina, Elisabetta Mazzarella, Maria Assunta Giusti, Emiliano Macaluso, Francesco Lacquaniti, Paolo Viviani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234695